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Hebrews 8…A Heavenly Priesthood (simplyjuliana.com)
We have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that was set up by the Lord and not man.

The Lord is our Salvation (bscribes.wordpress.com)
Going through the Old Testament I came to understand the word save, or rescue. I came to understand this word through the light of Isaiah 54. Isaiah 54 speaks of a future event to be played out when God redeem his people, an event Jesus fulfilled at his appearance. The prophecy is not yet complete, but for that which Jesus has already fulfilled. What is yet to be fulfilled, is a few verse: Isaiah 15, and 17.

Different from all other nights (joaninordinarytime.wordpress.com)
There are several cues during the Evening Mass on Holy Thursday that tell you something is different tonight.
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It was a memorial they celebrated for 30+ years of their lives, and suddenly Jesus was doing something different.
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The Hebrew understanding of remembering, memorial – zikaron – was not a passive remembering of a past event. It was a participation in that event. The past event was being made present for you, so that you too could share in the Passover, the redemption of the first born.

Covenant (part 1) (judysdiamondyear.com)
Theologians have seen this as the first promise of a Redeemer for fallen mankind.

Remembering the Betrothal of Christ (tamimyer.wordpress.com)
The night before He died for her, Christ was thinking of His bride. When He knelt to wash His disciples’ feet, He was the Bridegroom washing His bride to make her radiant. In the strength of humility, He ministered to the needs of His bride.
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Each time that we “drink this cup,” we are not only remembering His sacrifice for us; we are also renewing our vows to Him.

Justin Martyr: The Dialogue with Trypho – Chapter XI. – The Law Abrogated (restart.typepad.com)
“There will be no other God, O Trypho, nor was there from eternity any other existing” (I thus addressed him), “but He who made and disposed all this universe. Nor do we think that there is one God for us, another for you, but that He alone is God who led your fathers out from Egypt with a strong hand and a high arm. Nor have we trusted in any other (for there is no other), but in Him in whom you also have trusted, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob.”

The Jewish Roots of Palm Sunday and the Passion (thesacredpage.com)
With the Palm Sunday readings, the Church ushers us into the climax of the liturgical year in the celebration of Holy Week. This is the last Sunday feast before the beginning of the Triduum, which will climax in the celebration of Easter (Latin Pascha), what the Catechism calls the “feast of feasts” (CCC 1169).

Holy Thursday (johnmsfs.wordpress.com)
Have you ever noticed that in Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Last Supper everybody is on one side of the table? The other side is empty. “Why’s that?” someone asked the great artist. His answer was simple. “So that there may be plenty of room for us to join them.” Want to let Jesus do his thing on earth through you? Then pull up a chair and receive him into your heart.

To Gethsemane (nebraskaenergyobserver.wordpress.com)
We don’t get much of a sense of the daily life of Jesus as He and His disciples tramped the roads of Judea, but the Gospel narratives give us some insight. They settled down for the night in Gethsemane. They’d had a good evening, and only one person at that supper knew why Judas had left early. We get a sense of companionship, and we can grasp something of the feeling of love which Jesus inspired in those close to Him.

Based on the details of the Canonical gospels, the Crucifixion of Jesus was most likely to have been on a Friday (John 19:42). The estimated year of the Crucifixion is AD 33, by two different groups, and originally as AD 34 by Isaac Newton via the differences between the Biblical and Julian calendars and the crescent of the moon. A third method, using a completely different astronomical approach based on a lunar Crucifixion darkness and eclipse model (consistent with Apostle Peter‘s reference to a “moon of blood” in Acts 2:20), points to Friday, 3 April AD 33.

The oh so Catholic Poland now begins for many years later than our country to feel the consequences of the wrong attitude of the Catholic Church towards priests who abused young people. New research shows that church attendance starts going down very quickly now. The Polish church also for the first time has to pay […]

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